@inproceedings{Keplinger08-SSMNEHM-Ferroelectrets,
  title = {Cellular Ferroelectrets for Electroactive Polymer Hybrid Systems: Soft Matter Integrated Devices with Advanced Functionality},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the SPIE Vol. 6927 },
  abstract = {Thin polymer foams with a closed cell void-structure can be internally charged by silent or partial discharges
  within the voids. The resulting material, which carries positive and negative charges on the internal void surfaces
  is called a ferroelectret. Ferroelectrets behave like typical ferroelectrics, hence they provide a novel class of ferroic
  materials. The soft foams are strongly piezoelectric in the 3-direction, but show negligible piezoelectric response
  in the transverse direction. This, together with a very low pyroelectric coefficient, make ferroelectrets highly
  suitable for flexible electroactive transducer element which can be integrated in thin bendable organic electronic
  devices. Here we describe some fundamental characteristics of cellular ferroelectrets and present a number of
  promising examples for a possible combination with various functional polymer systems. Our examples focus on
  flexible ferroelectret field-effect transistor systems for large-area sensor skins and microphones, flexible large-array
  position detectors (touchpad), and stretchable large-array pressure sensors.},
  pages = {69270Q 1-10},
  address = {San Diego, USA},
  month = apr,
  year = {2008},
  slug = {keplinger08-ssmnehm-ferroelectrets},
  author = {Schw{\"o}diauer, Reinhard and Graz, Ingrid and Kaltenbrunner, Martin and Keplinger, Christoph and Bartu, Petr and Buchberger, Gerda and Ortwein, Christoph and Bauer, Siegfried},
  month_numeric = {4}
}